No surprises in mandate letter says Loewen
Forestry and Parks Minister Todd Loewen says there were no surprises in his mandate letter from Premier Danielle Smith.
“More or less what I was expecting. There were some things on there that I thought we’d done really good work on already that were on there again. We’ve got to always be improving and doing better. Overall, kind of what I expected.”
One of the first things the Central-Peace Notley MLA has been tasked with is working with cabinet colleagues to come up with an incentive program for the forestry industry similar to the Agri-Processing Tax Credit. Loewen says the government wants more value-added products produced in Alberta.
“We want those jobs created here and if we can do it by sending less of our raw product away to be worked on, then I think that’ll be a good thing for the province and for our economy.”